List of awesome projects and information resources about the Metaverse. Since there are many competing ideas about what the Metaverse is, feel free to leave feedback in the form of pull requests, issues, and comments. You can also reach us through discord.
- WebXR
- Social VR
- Avatar Providers
- Protocols & Standards
- Games & Virtual Worlds
- Books
- Media
- Crypto
- White Papers
- Links
- WebXR Explainer - What is WebXR and what are the use-cases?
- Awesome WebVR - Curated list of awesome WebVR packages and resources
- Exokit - WebXR meta-browsers, engines, avatar systems, and more
- Exokit overview - Unofficial overview of the Exokit toolkit
- Exokit Web - The web metaverse engine
- Exokit Web 2 - Make the API simpler and easier to understand
- Webaverse - 100% open source web based metaverse / game engine
- Awesome WebXR - Compilation of links for WebXR demos, frameworks, editors and more
- Web3XR - Site explaining the intersection of Web3 and WebXR technologies, WIP
- Glitch WebXR tutorials - Editable templates and guides for making your own WebXR sites
- Elements marked with 🟢 are MIT-licensed.
- Elements marked with ⚫ are not licensed.
- Elements marked with 🟣 are under Mozilla Public License 2.0.
- Elements marked with 🟠 are under Apache 2.0 License.
- Elements marked with 🔴 are commercial / custom license.
🟢 JanusWeb - Web framework for building interconnected virtual reality
experiences.
⚫ Janus Guide - Learn to build open source self-hosted virtual worlds
connected by portals.
🟢 a-frame - JS framework for building 3D/AR/VR experiences.
⚫ Exokit Avatar Component - Importing full IK avatars into aframe
webxr apps.
Integrating Augmented Reality Objects into the Real World with Light and Shadows -
Guide by Ada Rose Cannon.
🟣 Hubs - Multi-user virtual spaces in WebXR, made by Mozilla.
Hubs Creator Labs - Inspiration, creativity and knowledge that transcends Hubs.
⚫ High Fidelity - Open source VR software platform. (Deprecated)
🟠 Vircadia - Community maintained fork of High Fidelity.
⚫ Tivoli Cloud - Open source fork of High Fidelity.
🟠 Decentraland - A blockchain-based virtual world (not VR yet).
🟢 Webaverse - 100% open source web based metaverse / game engine.
🔴 XR3ngine - Open source framework for building scalable realtime social apps.
🔴 Croquet - A new web-based operating system that runs on any device.
- Blender - #1 open tool for 3D creation, modeling, and much more
- Spoke - Easily create custom 3D environments
- Open Brush - Derivative made from the open source code of Tilt Brush
- Three.js editor - Web editor for three.js
- Babylonjs editor - Web editor for babylon.js
- Cryptovoxels - Virtual world owned by its users
- Somnium Space - Persistent blockchain based virtual world
- NeosVR - Engine designed to accelerate the development of social VR applications
- VRChat - Biggest social VR platform with UGC of worlds and avatars
- Awesome VRChat - One-stop shop for people interested in developing content for VRchat
- Omniverse - Real-time simulation and collaboration platform for 3D production pipelines
- dot big bang - Web-based multiplayer UGC gaming platform with built-in tools and Typescript scripting
- Helios - Unreal Engine based UGC worlds, avatars and gaming platform
- Horizon Worlds - Meta (previously Facebook) announcement video of The Metaverse
- FrameVR - No-code creation of browser based virtual worlds
- Monaverse - Mint and display 3D spaces in Unity webgl powered 3D worlds, VR support soon
- RP1 - An upcoming platform "that can synchronously connect hundreds of millions of users to one another in a real-time, persistent virtual world, without the need for sharding."
AltspaceVR- AltspaceVR is a leading platform for live events, artists, brands and businesses (RIP)- Hyperfy - webxr enabled platform that lets you own and build anything you can imagine
- Worldwide Web3 - Free to play interoperable MMORPG metaverse project on Ethereum, closed source
- Gather Town - Virtual office and event space, closed source
- Atlantis World - Web3 social metaverse platform, closed source
- Work Adventure - collaborative virtual office web app presented as a 16-bit RPG video game, open source
- Ready Player Me - Cross-game Avatar Platform for the Metaverse
- VRoid Hub - Platform for uploading humanoid VRM avatars
- Cryptoavatars - Unique VRM avatars on the Ethereum blockchain
- Mixamo - Easy tool to rig and animate characters, by Adobe
- Booth.pm - Indie marketplace that contains many 3D avatar / world assets
- Bitcoin - Bitcoin is an innovative payment network and a new kind of money.
- Ethereum - Ethereum is a technology that's home to digital money, global payments, and applications.
- BNB Chain - The best-performing decentralized economy. Ready for massive user access.
- Polygon - Polygon is a decentralised Ethereum scaling platform that enables developers to build scalable user-friendly dApps with low transaction fees without ever sacrificing on security.
- Optimism - Optimism is a low-cost and lightning-fast Ethereum L2 blockchain.
- Immutable X - Scale your game in hours with the leading Layer 2 for NFTs that’s fully secured by Ethereum.
- Dat - a peer-to-peer protocol
- IPFS - a peer-to-peer hypermedia protocol
- BTFS - BTFS provides global decentralized storage service with high reliability.
- OpenSea - The largest NFT marketplace.
- Zesty Market - A marketplace for rentable NFT banner spaces in XR
- oncyber - Easy platform to display NFTs in a virtual world, built on threejs
- glTF - Runtime 3D asset delivery
- VRM - File format for 3D humanoid avatars
- WebXR - Accessing VR/AR hardware on the web
- Open Metaverse Interoperability group (OMI) - Working group for open protocols / standards
- Metaverse Standards Forum - a new venue for cooperation between standards organizations and companies to foster the development of interoperability standards for an open and inclusive metaverse
- Roblox - Massive online multiplayer UGC gaming platform
- Gala Games - Through decentralization, players not only own their in-games items, but they have a voice in how the Gala Games roadmap develops.
- Spider Tanks - The 1st Play-to-Earn E-Sport PVP.
📖 Neuromancer - (80s) Defined the Cyberpunk genre and the term Cyberspace
📖 Snow Crash - (90s) Coined the term Metaverse as a successor to the
Internet, author Neal Stephenson recently cofounded Lamina1.
📖 Ready Player One - (2011) Hit book that later became a Spielberg
movie
📖 Ready Player Two - (2020) Sequel to Ready
Player One
📖 Rainbows End - (2006) Increasingly digital/virtual world with
ubiquitous computing
📖 Idoru - Virtual celebrities and decentralized virtual worlds, Book #2 in Bridge
Trilogy
📖 The Spatial Web - How web 3.0 will
connect humans, machines and AI to transform the world
📖 The Metaverse: And How it Will Revolutionize Everything -
Upcoming book by Matthew Ball
📖 Step Into the Metaverse: How the Immersive Internet Will Unlock a Trillion-Dollar Social Economy -
Mark van Rijmenam
- synthesia.io - Turn boring docs, PowerPoints, or PDFs into engaging training, how-to or product marketing videos.
🎥The Matrix - When a beautiful stranger leads computer hacker Neo to a
forbidding underworld, he discovers the shocking truth--the life he knows is the elaborate deception of an evil
cyber-intelligence.
🎥The Matrix Reloaded - Freedom fighters Neo, Trinity and Morpheus continue to
lead the revolt against the Machine Army, unleashing their arsenal of extraordinary skills and weaponry against the
systematic forces of repression and exploitation.
🎥The Matrix Revolutions - The human city of Zion defends itself against the
massive invasion of the machines as Neo fights to end the war at another front while also opposing the rogue Agent
Smith.
🎥The Matrix Resurrections - Return to a world of two realities: one, everyday
life; the other, what lies behind it. To find out if his reality is a construct, to truly know himself, Mr. Anderson
will have to choose to follow the white rabbit once more.
🎥The Thirteenth Floor - A computer scientist running a virtual reality
simulation of 1937 becomes the primary suspect when his colleague and mentor is murdered.
🎥eXistenZ - A game designer on the run from assassins must play her latest
virtual reality creation with a marketing trainee to determine if the game has been damaged.
🎥Free Guy - A bank teller discovers that he's actually an NPC inside a brutal,
open world video game.
🎥Tron - A computer hacker is abducted into the digital world and forced to
participate in gladiatorial games where his only chance of escape is with the help of a heroic security program.
🎥Tron: Legacy - The son of a virtual world designer goes looking for his
father and ends up inside the digital world that his father designed. He meets his father's corrupted creation and a
unique ally who was born inside the digital world.
🎥Wreck-It Ralph - A video game villain wants to be a hero and sets out to
fulfill his dream, but his quest brings havoc to the whole arcade where he lives.
🎥Ralph Breaks the Internet - Six years after the events of "Wreck-It Ralph,"
Ralph and Vanellope, now friends, discover a wi-fi router in their arcade, leading them into a new adventure.
🎥Wreck-It Ralph 2 - Based off Ralph Breaks the Internet, experience the
cooperative virtual reality adventure as you help Ralph and Venellope escape a security program who erases every type
of virus.
🎥Ready Player One - When the creator of a virtual reality called the OASIS
dies, he makes a posthumous challenge to all OASIS users to find his Easter Egg, which will give the finder his
fortune and control of his world.
🎥Black Mirror (USS Callister & San Junipero
in particular) - An anthology series exploring a twisted, high-tech multiverse where humanity's greatest innovations
and darkest instincts collide.
🎥Upload - A man is able to choose his own afterlife after his untimely death,
by having his consciousness uploaded into a virtual world. As he gets used to his new life and befriends his angel (
real world handler), questions about his death arise.
🎥Inception - A thief who steals corporate secrets through the use of
dream-sharing technology is given the inverse task of planting an idea into the mind of a C.E.O., but his tragic past
may doom the project and his team to disaster.
🎥Surrogates - Set in a futuristic world where humans live in isolation and
interact through surrogate robots, a cop is forced to leave his home for the first time in years in order to
investigate the murders of others' surrogates.
🎥Total Recall - A factory worker, Douglas Quaid, begins to suspect that he is
a spy after visiting Rekall - a company that provides its clients with implanted fake memories of a life they would
like to have led - goes wrong and he finds himself on the run.
- The Metaverse Primer - 9 Part series from Matthew Ball
- Matthew Ball – The Future of Media: Movies, the Metaverse, and More - Investor field guide to the Metaverse
- The Metaverse by Matthew Ball - What It Is, Where to Find it, Who Will Build It, and Fortnite
- A Primer on the Metaverse - Venturebeat article on the next iteration of the Internet
- Parts List for the Metaverse - List by Philip Rosedale
- The Metaverse Explained - Loup Ventures take on the Metaverse in 4 parts
- Metaversing - Exploring issues related to the Metaverse and design choices and challenges
- Makers Guide to the Metaverse - 2015 article on 5 principles to build into the Metaverse
- Metaverse Lab - Experiments with VR/AR, Neural Networks, and 3D Internet
- PUDDLES to OASIS - Wired article on connecting disparate virtual worlds
- A Multiverse, not the metaverse - 5 Part series on Multiversing by Techcrunch
- The library inside Minecraft and our future in the Metaverse - The Uncensored Library
- Roblox believes user-generated content will bring us the Metaverse - Roblox wants players to build the metaverse
- Balaji Srinivasan on Building a “Pseudonymous Economy” - Pseudonymity is already the norm in virtual worlds
- WHAT IS THE METAVERSE, AND DO I HAVE TO CARE? - Verge article that's one part definition, one part aspiration, one part hype
- The Economy of the Metaverse - Interview with Epic CEO Tim Sweeney
- Mark Zuckerberg Metaverse Interview - Zuck on Facebook becoming 'a Metaverse Company'
- The Metaverse is Everything - Article by Doug Thompson on why we're talking about the Metaverse now
- Building the Metaverse with janusVR - From 2015 but still relevant for building 3D internet experiences
- The Seven Rules of the Metaverse - A framework for the coming immersive reality by auradeluxe
- Building the Open Metaverse Podcast - Hosted by Patrick Cozzi (Cesium) and Marc Petit (Epic Games)
- IPSME - Dr. Kim Nevelsteen - Idempotent Publish/Subscribe Messaging Environment (IPSME) can be used for both client-side and server-side interoperability, or between blockchains; systems can be integrated without being taken down and re-engineered; avoids the need for standardization and supports legacy systems; and, reduces the complexity of integrating systems
- How the Open Metaverse Will Transform Our Online Identities - Interview with maintainer of this awesome list by Richard MacManus
- Into the Void: Where Crypto Meets The Metaverse - Piers Kicks article on blockchain based underpinnings for an open Metaverse
- The Open Metaverse OS - Exploration & framework for how web3 innovations converge with The Metaverse
- Larping Ethereum - Look into NFT Value from Interoperable Utility
- Interoperability in the Blockchain Gaming World - Ideas about connecting blockchain based virtual worlds
- The Virtual Economy - Stunning wbesite presentation about the intersection of crypto and virtual worlds
- Zima Red - NFTs, Virtual Worlds, Blockchain Games
- NFT Canon - Go-to resource curated by a16z about NFTs
- The Great Online Game - Blog post about the multiplayer meta game of the Internet
- A Primer on VR & the Blockchain - 20 Big Ideas about the Decentralized Metaverse by Kent Bye
- CC0 Compendium - curated selection of resources about CC0 NFT projects
- 7 Essential Ingredients of a Metaverse - Article by a16z on what distinguishes virtual worlds from an open metaverse
- Metaversal | Bankless - a top newsletter about crypto and metaverse by William M. Peaster
- M3-org Research - Community for builders and makers of the open metaverse
- urn-namespaces - A common identifier for assets across the metaverse
- Anarchy Arcade - Advanced 3D desktop and shortcut launcher built on Source engine
- MetaShortcutFormat - Spec to dynamically generate rich presence representations for generic shortcuts
- Emergent web metaverse - Looking at the web's past to catalyze conditions for the future Metaverse
- Hubs Master Plan - Hubs / Spoke plans for the emerging web Metaverse
- Metaverse Standards Overview (2014) - From the IEEE Virtual World Standard Working Group
- Tim Sweeney at SIGGRAPH 2019 - Foundational Principles & Technologies for the Metaverse
- Solipsis - Toward a Peer-to-Peer Shared Virtual
Reality
- Solipsis Presentation - Slideshow version
- 3D Virtual Worlds and the Metaverse - Current Status and Future Possibilities
- Metaverse Reading List - Topics for informed metaverse discussion by TrevorFSmith
- Raph Koster's Website - Industry veteran that has been working on virtual worlds and interop for decades
- xrdevlog.com - Metaverse interoperability projects and experiments by dankvr
- AngellXR - A Metaverse Incubation Community championing interoperability and collaboration.
- XRShowcase - A fun collection of web-based XR experiences.
- The Design of Virtual and Augmented Reality - Writeups by Alexandria Heston